Strongly Coupled Chameleon Fields: New Horizons in Scalar Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We show that as a result of non-linear self-interactions, scalar field theories that couple to matter much more strongly than gravity are not only viable but could well be detected by a number of future experiments, provided these are properly designed to do so.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0606204,
title = {Strongly Coupled Chameleon Fields: New Horizons in Scalar Field Theory},
author = {David F. Mota and Douglas J. Shaw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0606204},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figs. Typos corrected. Comments added. Phys. Rev. Lett. in print